Films like A Simple Favor.
A Simple Favor (2018) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are A Simple Favor’s neighbours — where are yours?
Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.
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